Beyond stats, Black Flag's best outfits are trophies of completion — and a few give real perks. Weapons come in tiers, and the strongest come from chests, the Fleet and completing the big collectible quests.
Standout gear
🛡️ Templar Armor
From the keys of the four Templar Hunts, opened at the Great Inagua manor (one Game8 page adds a fifth key, from Du Casse in A Single Madman). Purely cosmetic, like every outfit in Resynced.
🗿 Mayan Armour
From all 16 Stelae, plus the Yax Tun pendant — a powerful passive and a completion badge.
🔫 Elite pistols & swords
Four-pistol bandoliers and high-tier blades from chests, the Fleet and legendary rewards.
🎽 Cosmetic outfits
Explorer, captain and DLC outfits reward exploration and full completion.
How to earn them
- Templar Armor: finish all four Templar Hunts (the 'Damn Fine Gear' side quest).
- Mayan Armour: solve all 16 Mayan Stelae puzzles scattered across the West Indies.
- Top weapons: loot end-game chests, complete Fleet routes, and buy from harbour shops with reales.
- Some outfits are locked behind full sync or DLC — track them in the progress menu.
Weapon types
⚔️ Swords & cutlasses
Your main melee; higher tiers hit harder and combo into counters more reliably.
🔫 Pistols
Ranged finishers and chain-kills; the four-pistol set clears boarding decks fast.
🗡️ Hidden Blades
Assassinations and the rope dart — the core of the stealth kit.
💨 Tools
Smoke bombs, berserk and sleep darts swing hard fights and full-sync jobs your way.
Named standouts
🗡️ Persian Scimitars
A Legendary sword pulled from a treasure chest on Mystery Island, prized for high base damage against defended targets.
🔫 Le Bourgeoys Blades
The Legendary pistol-sword reward from the Art Lover side quest — a Heavy Strike fires it for free extra shots.
🎯 Golden Flintlock Pistols
Among the longest range and fastest draw of any pistol pair, built for dropping a target before it closes the gap.
The four Templar Hunt contacts
- Havana: Rhona Dinsmore sends you after Hilary Flint.
- Nassau: Upton Travers points you at Jing Lang, self-styled Queen of Pirates.
- Kingston: Anto's hunt targets Kenneth Abraham.
- Cayman Sound: Opia Apito's contract targets Lucia Marquez — finish all four for the Templar Armor and Templar Cross trinket.
Cross-checked
Cross-checked on 5 September 2026 against the guides of GameSpot, GamesRadar, Consolepulse and Vandal; the Yax Tun pendant's effect is absorbing gunfire. The individual Templar Hunt targets named above were not corroborated a second time. What is still unverified is the only thing reading cannot settle — nobody here has played it.